Southeast Asia

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Chapter 12

• Southeast Asia
• In
• Transition

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Main Ideas and Vocabulary

• European nations colonize Southeast Asia.
• Traders make huge profits as they sell Southeast
  Asian goods throughout Europe.
• Spain, Portugal, British, French, Germany, the
  United States and Dutch are in Southeast Asia.
• Vietnamese rulers viewed the missionaries from
  France as a threat to their own power.
• Protectorate- a country that has its own
  government, but whose policies are directed by an
  outside power.

3

• Encomienda- a right to demand taxes or labor from
  the people living on the land.
• Spanish power begins to decline around the world.
• In the Philippines, catholic religious orders
  were growing.
• U.S. gets involved in the Philippines.
• U.S. allows the Filipinos to hold government
  office.
• Even though the Americans built schools,
  hospitals, and roads, they did very little to
  change the Philippine economy.
• In Southeast Asia, colonial rule did alter their
  economy, but had little affect on their culture.
• In the 1900s there is a growing nationalist
  movement.

4

• The Japanese conquer much of China and threatened
  Southeast Asia.
• Vietnam struggles dividing between communist
  (North) and democracy (South).
• Cambodia and Laos get involved in the Vietnam
  War.
• By the 1970s Vietnam had been at war for more
  than 30 years.
• Genocide- the deliberate killing of a certain
  people group.
• Executions and famine killed as many as 2 million
  Cambodians.
• Vietnam, Cambodia, and Laos are still feeling the
  effects of war today.
• Today hundreds of thousands of the Southeast Asia
  people live in refugee camps.